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The Obama administration, under pressure to turn over key memos written by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, has asked the federal judge in New

A statewide Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (aka E-FORCSE) will finally go live on Thursday. For supporters of the program, its implementation has been a long time coming, but is welcome in a state where prescription drug abuse has reached near-epidemic proportions . # Starting Thurs., Sept

Josh Kraushaar, Mike Allen, and Jim Vandehei get the rumor mill churning with their report that Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), considered a dark horse 2012 candidate

The Associated Press reports: The United States plans to withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by August 2010, 19 months after President Barack Obama’s

In times of economic downturn, young people often bemoan their job prospects: The ranks of the unemployed swell with people slightly older, more experienced and

Despite the longstanding prohibition on torture, the U.N. Convention Against Torture (which the United States has ratified) and the Geneva Conventions, the

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.) tonight became the second incumbent in a week to be ousted by his own party, losing to state Sen. Mike Oliverio 56-44 percent in

That’s the apparently sincere wish of Larry Kudlow: With so many weak-kneed leaders in business and politics today, Gregg has just provided an incredibly

Comedy Central host and super PAC architect Stephen Colbert considered Gov. Rick Perry’s entry into the “embarrassment… of riches” that makes up the

CHICAGO, Ill. - Speaking to reporters on the campaign plane Monday morning, an aide to Sen. Barack Obama placed a bet on Sen. John McCain’s next weak spot:

It’s been almost exactly 18 months since Philip J. Berg, a Pennsylvania lawyer and Hillary Clinton supporter, filed a lawsuit demanding that his state keep

The Environmental Protection Agency released today a five-year plan outlining key goals for the agency. Chief among those goals is taking action on climate

Speaking of ousted United Nations deputy representative to Afghanistan Peter Galbraith, Galbraith was recently accused in a New York Times piece of promoting

Today, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the independent federal agency headed by Sheila Bair that regulates banks and insures deposits, announced it

A new field manual, based on lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan, seeks to move the military away from its traditional role of fighting a hostile state’s forces to stabilizing weak governments. But can the service accept a subordinate role?

Opponents of the Kennecott nickel sulfide mine under development west of Marquette are asking Attorney General Bill Schuette to investigate the process by which state regulators permitted the mine. Conservationist Laura Gauger and mining engineer Jack Parker say that the Michigan Dept